Titanic relief fund: nine families aided from Met Opera drive
Director W. Frank Persons details the distribution of $9,000 raised at the Metropolitan Opera benefit for Titanic victims. He describes aid to nine families, pensions, and emergency support for widows and children, with plans to secure long term relief and education funds.
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W. Frank Persons
Red Cross Emergency Relief Committee
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Mr. Persons
Europe
Persons
South Dakota
Sweden
England
Lis Ualion
Indian trophies for a museum
Medicine Man's curing machine and sacred charms join a witch's bag, a cedar flute, and war staffs among trophies Skinner gathered among Wisconsin Pottawatomie and Menominee—aimed at the American Museum of Natural History. Chief Satterlee and chieftain Mexico accompanied the expedition.
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Witch
Alanson B. Skinner
American Museum of Natural History
Wisconsin
Mr. Skinner
Saykosa
the Little Weasel
Society of Dreamers
John Satterlee
Benjamin Mexico
Skinner
American Museum of Nat
Reel
Green Bay
Dir. Skinner
Waususkee
Wis
Wilds
Mexico
Middle West
Jesako
Pottawatomie
Menominee Reservation
A Mohammedan University Planned for Bagdad
A Mohammedan university is to be established at Bagdad. The plan proposes creating an institution to serve higher learning in the city, signaling expansion in regional education.
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Mohammedan University
Bagdad
Torpedo Boat Target Practice to Use Live Craft
The Atlantic fleet plans fall and spring target drills using genuine torpedo boats as targets and actual torpedoes sans warheads. Three old craft will be rebuilt as destroyer-like targets while ships fire from 3,500 yards apart under revised rules limiting ranges to 6 000 yards.
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Atlantic
San Matcos
Wil
Tangier
Marcos
Texas
Tat Ag
Navy approves post graduate school at Naval Academy
Secretary of the Navy George von L Meyer approves a general order creating a post graduate school at the Naval Academy for officers. The plan adds four months at Annapolis, four months in preliminary specializing, then about sixteen months in selected lines, with assignments from three years sea service for promotion eligibility. Changes aim to graduate ensigns in four years and extend higher training through postgraduate study.
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Secretary of the Navy
George von L. Meyer
Bureau of Navigation
Naval Academy
Congress
Engineering Experiment Station
Navy Department
Bureau
Annapolis
Navy
John H. Gibbons
Astrologer Predicts No Clear Presidential Vote
Cambridge astrologer Dr. D Derolli predicts no candidate can win a majority of states in the coming election and says Congress will appoint the president by law. He published the forecast in the Boston Globe on November 4 1000, noting President MacKinley and Vice President Roosevelt figures.
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D. Derolli
Cambridge
Mass
Congress
Dr. Derolli
Boston Globe
MacKinley
Roosevelt
Destroyer Jenkins Tops Jouett as Fastest Navy Destroyer
The destroyer Jenkins surpassed the Jouett with an average speed of 23.14 knots in a two hour test, ending the Jouett’s 33.62 knot record. The Reed, Flusser, Lampson, Preston and Smith coal burners, the initial group in Atlantic flotilla, are slated for the Pacific coast fleet next spring when oil burning ships join the Atlantic flotilla.
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Jenkins
Jouett
Reid
Flusser
Lampson
Preston
Smith
Atlantic
Pacific Coast
New Consul to Bulgaria Named from Navy Hero R. B. Strassburger
Ralph B. Strassburger former Annapolis football star and Navy hero to be secretary of the legation and consul general to Roumania Bulgaria and Servia. Born 1883 in Norristown Pa he rose from naval service to a post under President Taft.
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R. B. Strassburger
Navy
Ralph B. Strassburger
Annapolis
Taft
Legation
Roumania
Bulgaria
Servia
Strassburger
Norristown
J. A. Strassburger
Montgomery County
Naval Academy At
Babcock & Wilcox Company of
New York
North Dakota
Hoxie
Army
Miss May Bourne
Long Island
Frederick G. Bourne
Baltimore
Greeks Exodys Threatens U S Labor As War Call Grows
Large scale Greek emigration to join Turkish war amid uncertain numbers. From New York port onward, 8000 Greeks and 600 Bulgarians already left, with authorities predicting up to 100000 Greeks in the United States may depart for the front. Industry warned of labor shortages as exodus expands.
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New York
United States
Greece
Patris
National Greek Line
Utah
Panama Canal
Canal and Railway
Posta Sav
Navy contract for shells awarded abroad amid bids
Hatfield Steel of England won a Navy contract for 14 inch and 12 inch armor piercing shells over American rivals, with bids far higher losses cited. Acting Secretary Winthrop announced the decision, noting only enough shells will be produced to serve as a test, and outlining eight hour law considerations raised by Attorney General Wickersham.
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United States Navy
Hatfeld Steel Company
England
Winthrop
Hatfeld Company
Washington and Ordnance Company
Crucible Steel Company
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem, Pa
Midvale Steel Company
Philadelphia
Wickersham
Rebevy Department
Alus
Italy's Emigrants Focus on Male Proportion
Italy's emigrants show eighty percent are males per one hundred departures, highlighting gender imbalance in historical migration patterns and the pull of work abroad.
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Italy
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Boston
William H. Meyers
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Adam Horn
Molly Maguires
Potteville
Mauch Chunk
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